I have a desktop and a laptop both running W7 and LMDE (dual boot). The printer is connected to the desktop with usb. How can I share the printer with my laptop? From what I could dig up so far I need to setup samba and cups to achieve this, problem is I don't really know where to begin..

Could anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance .

Last edited by toomuchcoffee on Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

If you're talking about the [printers] share, it's set up to require credentials from the client before printing is allowed. Setting "guests ok" to yes allows anyone to print to that printer.

BTW, the [printers] share really isn't a share like a folder share in Samba. It creates a sharable printer for every printer that CUPS passes to it. That's why the [printers] share itself is not browseable.

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Cheese and crackers ! I have no idea what that's all about. I try to stay away from Debian based Mint for reasons like this. Was this an update to an earlier LMDE or was this a new install of the latest respin? I try to do some searches on that message but it looks like multiple failures to me.

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